"Yet Another Christian Blog" as the title says. Plenty of religious fluff on the internet nowadays. So how do you know which ones are right? How about the ones that follow the written Word of the Bible?

Sound too easy? It is easy! We read the Bible to learn about God's plans and will for our lives. I created this site mainly to document my studies for my own benefit and to provide some online sermons. See you on the other side?

While reading through the first book of Samuel, I have been really impressed by the content in it. Saul makes so many of the same sins that we today make. Sometimes, even worse, Saul sins by trying to help God. Something I know all of us try to do.

13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever. 14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him [to be] captain over his people, because thou hast not kept [that] which the LORD commanded thee.

What bothers me is the fact that Saul thought he was doing something good, yet he wasn't. I can't even think of the number of times that I have done something for God, or given God "advice" all the while thinking that I was doing something right. This is a great example of why one needs to have an active prayer life and to actively seek out the will of God. Saul knew that God commanded him to wait on Samuel, yet he took matters into his own hands.